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steverino
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Yep ted, that stuff ought to soak up some flavoring like a sponge. How long do you normally cure it?
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ted
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| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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| steverino wrote: | | Yep ted, that stuff ought to soak up some flavoring like a sponge. How long do you normally cure it? |
With Burley the entire plant is cut and "spudded" onto thin sticks and hung in open air barns in late August or early September. It'll hang there till early November.
On a damp dreary November day, when the dried tobacco comes into "case" (absorbs enough moisture so as to not be brittle) it'll be taken down, off the sticks, and the plants will be piled and covered.
We'll do "grading" a little clloser to the actual time.....ted |
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steverino
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| Okay. Four to six weeks is what I have read, but not having personal experience, I wondered how close that was to accurate. |
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drbridges
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| Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 4:31 pm Post subject: FDA & Flavored Tobacco |
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News release from FDA. Pertains to cigarettes, not pipe tobacco, but I wonder if this is the beginning of something that may affect us eventually.
http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/New.../PressAnnouncements/ucm189436.htm
| Quote: | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is enforcing the flavored cigarette ban provision of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act) by issuing several warning letters to companies continuing to sell illegal flavored cigarettes to consumers in the United States through their Web sites.
The warning letters directed the companies to cease the marketing and sale of these products immediately or to take other appropriate action to bring the products into compliance with the law. Failure to do so may result in additional regulatory actions such as seizure or injunction. In addition, FDA requested a written response from each of the companies within 15 days outlining the corrective actions taken.
Enforcement of the flavored cigarette ban is FDA’s effort to remove cigarettes that contain certain candy or fruit flavors from the marketplace. Removal of these products from the market will assist in the prevention of children and adolescents from starting to smoke and in the reduction in death and disease caused by smoking.
“FDA takes the enforcement of this flavored cigarette ban seriously,” said Lawrence R. Deyton, M.S.P.H, M.D., director of FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products. These actions should send a clear message to those who continue to break the law that FDA will take necessary actions to protect our children from initiating tobacco use.”
The Tobacco Control Act, which was passed by Congress and signed by the President in June 2009, specifically called for a ban on cigarettes containing certain characterizing flavors. On Sept. 14, 2009, FDA sent a letter to regulated industry reminding them that the ban would go into effect on Sept. 22, 2009. FDA also stated in the letter that any company who continued to sell such products after the Sept. 22, 2009, effective date may be subject to FDA enforcement actions.
Since the effective date of the ban, FDA has examined products offered for import and searched the Internet to identify illegal products. As a result, FDA issued several warning letters to companies and Web sites that continued to market and sell these illegal products over the Internet to consumers in the United States. The warning letters were the result of Internet searches conducted by FDA’s Office of Enforcement and the Center for Tobacco Products. |
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gillywalker
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LokoMac8
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No! Well, it serves those self-serving politicians right! I don't believe in "sin taxes" regardless of what they are on. A 2,000 percent tax increase on ANYTHING is absurd and should be unconstitutional if not unconscionable. Let's throw a 2,000 percent tax increase on gasoline and automobile sales! After all, the vehicles and the pollution they make kill people and children, too -- and the deaths from the pollution are probably conveniently and wrongly attributed to smoking and second-hand smoke anyway. SOBs! --RJ-- |
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BWThomas
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This kind of stuff really turns my stomach. I've been watching this for sometime. These clowns in Washington are just going to try to push this tax over to pipe tobacco and cigars. I certainly hope they do not succeed. They are NOT going to raise the revenue they had hoped for with these taxes. All they are going to succeed in doing is closing down small businesses, putting MORE people out of work, and taking more money from your pockets so they can just piss it away on their BS entitlement programs.
I could go on ranting about this for hours...but I won't!
I hope that all here will this keep sort of thing in mind the next time you vote. Take a few minutes and find out how your representatives in Washington voted on these issues. If they aren't thinking the same way you are....send them off to look for a new job!
Earn what you keep...keep what you earn! Can you tell what side of the fence I'm on?!
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